Petiole (insect anatomy)
Insect waist anatomy term / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In entomology, petiole is the technical term for the narrow waist of some hymenopteran insects, especially ants, bees, and wasps in the suborder Apocrita.
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The petiole can consist of either one or two segments, a characteristic that separates major subfamilies of ants.